Cheat Engine

[cooleko]

I have a script im working on that receives a game time in seconds
I create three addresses: Days, Minutes, Hours
I want to write to the original memory location the new accumulated seconds value when the user edits the days, minutes, or hours field.

I am using a timer (100ms) to update the addresses with the current time
I am thinking about using a timer to "watch" the address for user intervention, but I would have to disable the second timer everytime the first timer wrote the values and then enable the second timer afterwards.
Is this the only way to do what I want?

AKA:

Days=3
Days will always =3 unless it is changed by the first timer to 4
If user changes Days to 0, then there will be a difference, and we can write the new accumulated seconds to the memory address.

IF i disable the watch timer while the first timer updates from 3 to 4, it shouldn't trigger the second timer.

However, this is old school because there should be some sort of onEvent function to call for when a user interacts with the table.

From main.lua

[Zanzer]

Your timer is just constantly writing the game timer (freezing)?

If the user changes the days, hours, or minutes, why doesn't your timer use the new value in those records?

[cooleko]

The game timer has a single address which holds number of seconds since world initialized.

I can parse that into readible data using my first timer. (Days, Hours, Minutes). I created these addresses myself in asm using alloc/registersymbol.

My timer constantly reads the number of seconds, parses them into days, hours, minutes, and writes those values for display in the table.

If the game had these fields, i would simply display them to the user, and their edits would reflect in the game.

The game does not have these fields, I would like to allow for a user to edit the table, and once edited an onEvent trigger to my function call for writing the game time by adding the days, hours, and minutes together and setting that into the game's address for total seconds.

It appears that the only onEvent code in the game is for enable/disable of ASM script, or freeze/unfreeze of code.

My request is if I'm missing something in the main.lua or if the only solution is my two timer example in the original post.

[panraven]

Yes, onMemRec(Pre|Post)Execute @ Global and On(Dea|A)ctivate @ Memory Record Class are specify for events of activate/deactivate only, they don't detect value change by user input that happened not on freeze/unfreeze event.

May provide some custom ui for user intervention.

Some ui (eg Edit Box) has the OnChange Event Handler (continue fire for every edit action).
Most control ui have the OnEnter/OnExit (focus) handler,ie. start and end editing state, may prevent continue fire for every edit action.

bye~

[Zanzer]

Duplicate your days, hours, and minutes variables and do not present this set to the user.
During your code that calculates the new values, first check to see if the user values still match your duplicate values.
If not, then don't bother updating them in your code this go around.
Instead, use the user values to calculate the new elapsed timer value and update it.
Be sure to update your duplicate values at this time so they match the user values on the next go.
If the two sets originally matched, just be sure to update them both together to match the new game time.

[cooleko]

That is a much cleaner way to accomplish my goal, thanks!